Track Listing

1. Nobody Knows My Name
2. Gethsemane
3. Falling Up
4. Lamp Of The Body
5. It Hurts
6. Where I Like It Best
7. Tried To Be A Man
8. Circle In The Sand
9. Donkey Ride
10. 7th Day
11. Elvis Cadillac
12. Road To Emmaus
13. I Was There

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46097 in Music
• Brand: Dig
• Released on: 2007-02-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .16 pounds

Album Description
THE SERMON ON EXPOSITION BOULEVARD, the new album by Rickie Lee Jones and her first for New West Records, is a beauty--soul-satisfying and sonically unique. RICKIE LEE sounds completely tapped in, alive and vital, heading down some mighty interesting roads and discovering new magical essences. Lots of creative sparks here--plenty of them. She sounds like she's going through a transformation throughout the album in a way that's reminiscent of Van Morrison's performances on his classic album Astral Weeks.

Amazon.com
Fans of Rickie Lee Jones and Jesus Christ can decide whether this devotional music is rapturously spiritual or deliriously strange. It sounds like nothing Jones has previously released, or anything characterizable as contemporary Christian. Instead, her voice soars and wobbles through repetitive, stream-of-consciousness incantations over rhythmic throbs and pulses. On "Where I Like It Best," Jones testifies to the power of private prayer (while seeming to cast churchgoers as hypocrites). The feral distortions of "Tried to Be a Man" recall some of the textures (if not the themes) of her former boyfriend Tom Waits, while the acoustic setting of "Donkey Ride" features guitar tunings that might make Sonic Youth wince and "Elvis Cadillac" conjures a singular vision of heaven. At close to eight and a half minutes, the closing "I Was There" seems to follow Van Morrison into the mystic. Some of this music is oddly affecting; much of it is merely odd. --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews

celebrate!
thank you rickie lee for revealing the essence of creative spirit and holy spirit and revolutionary spirit and down-to-earth human spirit all at the same time (without being preachy or heavy-handed or lightweight). buy this recording and you get the ghosts of van morrison, the rolling stones, tom waits, nick drake, john cale, wilco and daniel lanois all married to a great magic flowing through the renewed spirit of rickie jones. recordings like this are few and far between. eventually, history calls them "essential." i have a strong feeling i'll be playing this one for as long as i live.

My sermon here
Two weeks have passed and there is only one review of this cd since its release? Wow! I listened to the cd, watched the DVD and then listed to the cd again. The DVD/SACD version is not essential, but the cd is. In a few weeks I will be driving 120 miles to San Francisco to catch Rickie live. This is really good stuff. If there was any justice the track "Falling Up" would be getting lots of air play and would be one of the top singles on the charts. If you are a Rickie Lee Jones fan you absolutely must have this cd.

On this one she soars
I always considered Rickie to be a rawer Joni Mitchell. As Courtney Love is a rawer Madonna. But too often she seemed unfocused and distracted.

On this one Rickie shines! This is the high mark of her career so far. Through all the drug hazed days and aimless wandering she's seen the light.

If you never listen to another Rickie album, at least give this one a try.

Falling Up is the song I can't get out of my head.
It Hurts and Elvis Cadillac are other catchy pop tunes.
Nobody Knows My Name and Gethseme are haunting tunes.